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Mark Smith

Philip Larkin, the Impossible Man - Magazine - The Atlantic - 3 views

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  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
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  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • In somewhat different ways, Orwell and Larkin were phlegmatically pessimistic and at times almost misanthropic, not to say misogynistic. Both also originated from dire family backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the colored subjects of the British Empire, and the working class.
  • This is the world of wretched, tasteless food and watery drinks, dreary and crowded lodgings, outrageous plumbing, surly cynicism, long queues, shocking hygiene, and dismal, rain-lashed holidays, continually punctuated by rudeness and philistinism. In Orwell’s early fiction, all this is most graphically distilled in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, but it is an essential element of the texture of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and was quarried from the “down and out” journalism of which he produced so much
Dennis OConnor

Time Management Tips for Teaching Online and E-Learning - UW Stout, Wisconsin's Polytec... - 9 views

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  • Dennis OConnor on 12 Sep 10
     
    A great page of advice on how to manage your time. If you are an online instructor, or an online student, you'll find valuable resources here. Now if you only had the time to follow this link right? Try it, you'll like it!
Mark Smith

The Case for Breaking Up With Your Parents - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 5 views

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  • More than love, sex, courtship, and marriage; more than inheritance, ambition, rivalry, or disgrace; more than hatred, betrayal, revenge, or death, orphanhood—the absence of the parent, the frightening yet galvanizing solitude of the child—may be the defining fixation of the novel as a genre, what one might call its primordial motive or matrix, the conditioning psychic reality out of which the form itself develops.
  • Mark Smith on 07 May 12
     
    "This is the play-date generation. ... There was a time when children came home from school and just played randomly with their friends. Or hung around and got bored, and eventually that would lead you on to something. Kids don't get to do that now. Busy parents book them into things constantly-violin lessons, ballet lessons, swimming teams. The kids get the idea that someone will always be structuring their time for them."
  • Mark Smith on 07 May 12
     
    A great article, worth 15 minutes.
Dana Huff

Life in 999: A Grim Struggle - TIME - 0 views

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  • Dana Huff on 05 Sep 09
     
    This article appears in the Holt Elements of Literature Sixth Course: Essentials of British and World Literature text alongside Beowulf and an excerpt from John Gardner's Grendel. It is a good companion piece for Beowulf.
Clifford Baker

Free Technology for Teachers: TokBox & EtherPad Offer Real-time Collaboration - 0 views

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  • Clifford Baker on 03 Sep 09
     
    Through the integration of EtherPad into TokBox users can talk about changes to a document while enacting those changes at the same time.
anonymous

TIME 100: Heroes and Icons - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    An abolutely wonderful site with great essays about major figures written BY other key figures (e.g., Bill Gates writing about the importance of the Wright Brothers)
anonymous

NCEE (National Center on Education and the Economy) - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    Goes directly to the Tough Choices Tough Times report (a summary of it) which is the latest version of the SCANS report several decades ago. Tough Times looks at what the workplace says kids need to graduate knowing how to do if we are to remain economica
Dennis OConnor

10 Free Online Courses for Writing Teachers - The Writing Teacher - Tips, Tec... - 8 views

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  • Taking writing courses can help writing teachers become better writers, mentors, and readers. There are several free university level writing courses that can be taken online. Credit is not available for any of the courses and degrees are not awarded, but the opportunity to build new skills is undeniable. Here are 10 self-paced writing courses to explore in your spare time.
  • Taking writing courses can help writing teachers become better writers, mentors, and readers. There are several free university level writing courses that can be taken online. Credit is not available for any of the courses and degrees are not awarded, but the opportunity to build new skills is undeniable. Here are 10 self-paced writing courses to explore in your spare time.
  • Dennis OConnor on 18 Oct 10
     
    "Taking writing courses can help writing teachers become better writers, mentors, and readers. There are several free university level writing courses that can be taken online. Credit is not available for any of the courses and degrees are not awarded, but the opportunity to build new skills is undeniable. Here are 10 self-paced writing courses to explore in your spare time."
Dana Huff

Teaching 'The Great Gatsby' With The New York Times - NYTimes.com - 15 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 17 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 17 Mar 11
     
    The New York Times' collection of resources for teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.
Dennis OConnor

Information Investigator 3 by Carl Heine on Prezi - 14 views

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21cif Information fluency selflearning self-paced online learning research

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  • Dennis OConnor on 30 Sep 11
     
    What if every student (and educator) was a good online researcher?  I know, you don't have the time to teach information fluency skills.  What if you could get a significant advance is skills with just a 2 -3  hour time commitment?  Here's a great Prezi 'fly by" of the new Information Investigator 3.1 online self paced class.  Watch the presentation carefully to find the link to a free code to take the class for evaluation purposes. 
Meredith Stewart

EtherPad Time-Slider- WatchStudents Write - 0 views

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  • Meredith Stewart on 04 Sep 09
     
    Use the time-slider on Etherpad to see students' writing process. Very cool!
andrew bendelow

Teacher Magazine: Teaching Secrets: How to Use Leftover Class Time Wisely - 0 views

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practical tips for new teachers classroom management

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  • andrew bendelow on 25 Jul 09
     
    Larry Ferlazzo offers tips on the most effective use of those last few minutes of class time.
Adam Babcock

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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  • Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects
  • rash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims
  • new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways.
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  • if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about
  • You may well wonder whether my companion was male or female, but I have the right to tell you politely that it’s none of your business. But if we were speaking French or German, I wouldn’t have the privilege to equivocate in this way
  • but I do have to tell you something about the timing of the event: I have to decide whether we dined, have been dining, are dining, will be dining and so on. Chinese, on the other hand, does not oblige its speakers to specify the exact time of the action in this way, because the same verb form can be used for past, present or future actions.
  • When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant.
  • gendered languages” imprint gender traits for objects so strongly in the mind that these associations obstruct speakers’ ability to commit information to memory
  • When French speakers saw a picture of a fork (la fourchette), most of them wanted it to speak in a woman’s voice, but Spanish speakers, for whom el tenedor is masculine, preferred a gravelly male voice for it.
  • Nonetheless, once gender connotations have been imposed on impressionable young minds, they lead those with a gendered mother tongue to see the inanimate world through lenses tinted with associations and emotional responses that English speakers — stuck in their monochrome desert of “its” — are entirely oblivious to.
Leslie Healey

What should teachers expect? Alan Sitomer - 16 views

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  • Leslie Healey on 03 Sep 10
     
    Does your output equal your input? Tough times for teachers to navigate.....
Donalyn Miller

Writing: Find the Time or Don't « Whatever - 13 views

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  • Donalyn Miller on 18 Sep 10
     
    Author John Scalzi shares the importance of finding time to write or not.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: Quick Twitter Video Activity - 4 views

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  • Nik Peachey on 14 Jan 10
     
    "Educators seem to be constantly searching for new activities and ways to use Twitter with their Students. At the same time developers seem to be constantly looking for ways to build on the success of Twitter and develop apps and sites that will extend its functionality and increase its usefulness and usability."
  • Nik Peachey on 14 Jan 10
     
    Educators seem to be constantly searching for new activities and ways to use Twitter with their Students. At the same time developers seem to be constantly looking for ways to build on the success of Twitter and develop apps and sites that will extend its functionality and increase its usefulness and usability.
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